Oil on canvas. One of the 78 scenes from American history by Ferris titled The Pageant of a Nation.
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Celebrating George Washington’s 66th birthday in 1798, almost a year after he he finished his presidency.
But the peculiar character of [Aaron] Burr’s correspondence goes beyond his preoccupation with haste and secrecy. Burr never developed any ideas about constitutionalism or governmental policy in the way the other Revolutionary statesmen did, because, in truth, he was not much concerned about such matters. If he had any idea about the new federal Constitution of 1787, he left no record of it.